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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 94 21:13:17 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #823
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Linux-Misc Digest #823, Volume #2 Sun, 25 Sep 94 21:13:17 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD? (Robert Ashcroft)
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Alien File Systems (s5 & ufs) (Neil Dunbar)
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News readers for SL/ip (Ian Colquhoun)
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Re: Sony MiniDisc (Jay Ashworth)
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Re: P5-90 MHz beats SGI R4000-100MHz. (Shannon Hendrix)
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Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk! (Stephen Vance)
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Linux Test Post 1089 (John Dee)
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Boca Vortek Video card (FORSEILLES STEPHAN)
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Re: *** LINUX BOXES FOR ONLY 100 ECUs!! BUY BUY BUY!! *** (Pete Chown)
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Re: Don't use Linux or it's to academic! (Josef Dalcolmo)
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Re: P5-90 MHz beats SGI R4000-100MHz. (Larry Pyeatt)
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Re: Notebooks: _Backups?_ (philip m. thompson)
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PCI-NCR add-on (Markus Reith)
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Re: sunsite mirror in Japan? (Kaz Sasayama)
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Re: Motherboard recommendations? (Lulu of the lotus-eaters)
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Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD? (Aleph One)
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Re: SRI/Prentice Hall Internet CD: missing source (Jeff Kesselman)
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From: rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft)
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Subject: Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD?
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Date: 25 Sep 1994 19:17:11 GMT
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Could you perhaps be a little more clear by what you mean by AMD?
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The subject line seems to imply a problem with AMD chips, but your
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post seems to have nothing to do with AMD chips.
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So far as I know, AMD chips work fine with Linux (I have one myself
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with zero problems). What is this other AMD?
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RNA
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In article <1994Sep25.165813.15237@tcel.com>,
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Sean Watkins <sean@tcel.com> wrote:
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>
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>Hi,
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>
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>After labouring several hours to get AMD working, I have come to the
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>ultimate conclusion that AMD coupled with NIS under Linux is broken.
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>Following example summarizes:
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>
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>Let the auto.home map be equal to:
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>
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>gopher type:=link;fs:=/home/other/gopher
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>www type:=link;fs:=/home/other/www
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>other host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/other host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/other
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>ftp type:=link;fs:=/home/other/ftp
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>staff host!=server02;type:=nfs;rhost:=server02;rfs:=/staff host==server02;type:=link;fs:=/staff
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>cust host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/cust host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/cust
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>
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>NIS Querys of this map anywhere succeed --
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>
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>pc06 ~ % ypcat -k auto.home
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>gopher type:=link;fs:=/home/other/gopher
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>www type:=link;fs:=/home/other/www
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>other host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/other host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/other
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>ftp type:=link;fs:=/home/other/ftp
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>staff host!=server02;type:=nfs;rhost:=server02;rfs:=/staff host==server02;type:=link;fs:=/staff
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>cust host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/cust host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/cust
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>pc06 ~ %
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>
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>
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>Amd -v reveals:
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>pc06 ~ % amd -v
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>Copyright (c) 1990 Jan-Simon Pendry
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>Copyright (c) 1990 Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
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>Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
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>Unofficial patch level 67.
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>amd 5.2.2.2 of 1992/05/31 16:53:21 bsd44-beta #0: Mon Aug 29 11:39:51 MDT 1994
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>Built by root@pc01 for an i486 running linux version 1.1.34 (little-endian).
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>Map support for: root, passwd, union, file, error.
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>FS: ufs, nfs, nfsx, host, link, linkx, pcfs, program, union, auto,
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> direct, toplvl, error.
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> Primary network: primnetname="x.x.x.x" (primnetnum=x.x.x).
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>No Subsidiary network.
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>pc06 ~ %
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>(x.x.x.x have been replaced)
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>
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>Invocation of amd reveals:
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>pc06 ~ % amd -a /tmp_mnt /home auto.home
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[412]/info: My ip addr is 0x100007f
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/info: file server localhost type local starts up
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: type nfs
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: version 1
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: fd 6
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: hostname 127.0.0.1
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: port 1023
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: fsname pc06:(pid413)
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: type (mntent) auto
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: opts intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: dir /home
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/user: No source data for map auto.home
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> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/info: auto.home mounted fstype toplvl on /home
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>pc06 ~ %
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>
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>Ideas??? If I ypcat -k auto.home > /etc/auto.home then do amd -a /tmp_mnt
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>/home /etc/auto.home it is successfull...
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>--
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>Sean Watkins
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>sean@tcel.com
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From: neil@krypton.demon.co.uk (Neil Dunbar)
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Subject: Alien File Systems (s5 & ufs)
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 19:28:09 +0000
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I couldn't find this stuff in the FAQ, so here goes:
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I know Linux supports SysV file systems read and write, but do any
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programs exist which can create and check such file systems (so I can
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share it with Unixware (blech!)).
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Also, has anyone created a ufs read/write system for Linux, even as
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client for userfs? Again, and the tools to create them. If not, I see
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my next little project on the horizon...
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Cheers,
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Neil
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--
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+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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| Neil Dunbar | Internet: neil@krypton.demon.co.uk |
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| VoxMail: +44 (0)31 346 8617 | Compu$erve: 100066,603 |
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| | "I made the blue car go away" -- JDM |
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From: ianc@bonk.io.org (Ian Colquhoun)
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Subject: News readers for SL/ip
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Date: 25 Sep 1994 03:14:13 GMT
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Are there any news readers for Linux (or any other UNIX) that reads news
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more like Trumpet for Windows does? Having to wait while TIN or TRN reads
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the entire newsgroups file via NNTP over a 14.4K link is a bit ridiculous!
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Please e-mail any responses to me..
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Thanks,
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Ian
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(ianc@io.org)
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From: jra@zeus.IntNet.net (Jay Ashworth)
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Subject: Re: Sony MiniDisc
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Date: 23 Sep 1994 14:35:42 -0400
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root@belvedere.sbay.org (David E. Fox) writes:
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>Andreas Zeidler (zeidler@ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de) wrote:
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>: hmmm... as far as I know, they will only hold about 120mb each. The
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>: prices within this rumours were the same, but IMHO the main
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>Still, being able to r/w makes this sound interesting. However, aren't
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>these supposed to be the same minidiscs used for audio, which can record a
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>CD? If so, I'd expect the storage space to be a lot closer to what a CD
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>can store (>600 megs).
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A comon misconception. The MD audio format uses a compression method tuned
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to CD quality (sic) audio. Lossy compression. So the actuall data
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capacity is much less than a CD.
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Cheers,
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-- jra
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--
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Jay R. Ashworth High Technology Systems Comsulting Ashworth
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Designer Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation & Associates
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ka1fjx/4
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jra@baylink.com "Hey! Do any of you guys know how to Madison?" 813 790 7592
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From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix)
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Subject: Re: P5-90 MHz beats SGI R4000-100MHz.
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 05:48:58 GMT
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lera@zeus.chem.wvu.edu (Valery Petrov) writes:
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>Some benchmarks comparison:
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> DELL XPS-90 SGI with R4000 cpu (100MHz):
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>Integer: 19.2 sec. 23.3 sec.
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>Floating point: 200 sec. 199 sec.
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>I used gcc-2.5.8 with Linux-1.1.51 on DELL's Pentium and C 3.18 with Irix 5.2 on Silicon Graphics machine. Programs were written in plain C using double precision for floating point. Considering
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>the price difference (similarly equipped SGI is ~3 times more expensive) I wonder who whould like to buy those Indigos nowdays.
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Well, you picked on an older SGI. Try that with a new one that has R4400's
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and better graphics and I/O. Plus, try rotating a 3d image with tens of
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thousands of component parts on that Pentium vs. the SGI. More to computing
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than the CPU. Intel's are more bang for the buck but SGI's are geared
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for graphics processing.
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Also, the SGI's are usually loaded down with a heavy-GUI and loads of nifty
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but CPU-consuming tools.
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>Valery Petrov.
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>Nonlinear Dynamics Research Group.
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>Department of Chemistry.
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>West Virginia University.
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--
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csh
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===========================================================================
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shendrix@escape.widomaker.com | Linux and BSD
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From: srvance@unix.secs.oakland.edu (Stephen Vance)
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Subject: Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk!
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Date: 25 Sep 1994 20:15:18 GMT
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In article grahamc@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Graham Chapman) writes:
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>In <slarsen.779550200@gonix> slarsen@gonix.com (Steve Larsen) writes:
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>>It seems like you guys have the 'boot' disk figured out, so your'e trying
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>>for a 'root' disk? Mount the one you currently have for an example. Incident-
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The Slackware boot kernel is patched to prompt for the root disk. Look in
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the slack_src directory. If you just boot and try to mount the root disk,
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you won't be able to because the version of mount doesn't understand the -n
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option and the root from the boot disk is mounted read only. The hitch is
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that it can't modify /etc/mtab~.
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Steve
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From: jd@ohbabe.stat.com (John Dee)
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Subject: Linux Test Post 1089
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 11:12:32 GMT
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ssssssssss
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From: sforseil@vub.ac.be (FORSEILLES STEPHAN)
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Subject: Boca Vortek Video card
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Date: 25 Sep 1994 21:43:56 GMT
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Does anyone have informations about/experience with the Boca
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Vortex video card? I was close to buy a Nr9 GE64 but after reading some
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postings from people having problems configuring X with this card, I'm
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looking for something else. Perhaps I'll just stick with SPEA, my ISA
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Mirage worked fine (though not very fast for bitmap, it's ISA).
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Thanks.
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++=============================================================++
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|| Forseilles Stephan || sforseil@ulb.ac.be ||
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|| Av. FRISSEN 1/14 || ------------------------------||
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|| 1160 Bruxelles || Fido: 2:291/705.3503 ||
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|| BELGIUM || Phone: +32 2 675-61-09 ||
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|| Home Page at http://rcibm.ulb.ac.be:8000/~sforseil ||
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|| Anarchy is not disorder. Anarchy is the absence of orders. ||
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++=============================================================++
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From: pc@dale.dircon.co.uk (Pete Chown)
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Subject: Re: *** LINUX BOXES FOR ONLY 100 ECUs!! BUY BUY BUY!! ***
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 11:21:15 GMT
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In article <35ljfj$d1g@widcat.Widener.EDU> jrp@widcat.Widener.EDU (Joshua R. Poulson) writes:
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>Advertising is certainly possible, there's not much to slow you down
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>if you wanted to do it.
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Hmm. Those lawyers left pretty quickly... (Okay, so that was private
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mail not news, but it amounts to much the same thing.)
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>We Linux users for the most part gladly welcome the CD-ROM vendors
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>and software vendors.
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So do I. I just want them to pay for their advertising, like all
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other companies do.
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>The sale-spam to traffic ratio is relatively low and benign in the
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>comp.os.linux.* hierarchy.
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It is extraordinary how this has changed. When I started reading news
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three years ago, you just didn't see commercial postings (outside
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biz.*, anyway). Occasionally somewhere like uuhare.rabbit.net would
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appear, send out a few adverts, get sendsys bombed and disappear. Yet
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now, people say that it doesn't matter because there aren't very many
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adverts.
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This is the thin end of something; once you say that adverts are
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acceptable in small numbers, you will get them in very large numbers
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as more and more people discover this miraculous way of advertising
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that doesn't cost anything.
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Incidentally, I have noticed that the number of adverts in
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comp.os.linux.* has fallen in the very recent past. Advertising was
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starting to be a significant proportion of comp.os.linux.announce, and
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probably began to attract flames at about the same time.
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>Nope... but if the traffic really bugs you, you can try to get a
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>new newsgroup made, comp.os.linux.forsale as an example, with the
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>purpose of moving ads and vendor spam from the regular groups.
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Or biz.comp.linux... How do you create a biz group anyway?
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From: josefd@albert.ssl.berkeley.edu (Josef Dalcolmo)
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Subject: Re: Don't use Linux or it's to academic!
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Date: 23 Sep 1994 18:15:49 GMT
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>: Now, I would never (or at least not for some years) recommend Linux to
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>: my customers as an alternative to MS-DOS or OS/2, especially not when
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Just my 2 cents worth:
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1. I love Linux. I hate DOS. I'm ambivalent about MS Windows.
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2. I spent most of my spare time all summer to set Linux it up.
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3. I spent much less time to set up DOS and Windows.
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4. I still use DOS/Windows (and SunOs) for work.
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5. Currently I think most people who see a computer just as a tool will have
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a much easier time with DOS / Windows than Linux.
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6. Power users who use many different programs and programmers may find
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linux more appealing.
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7. Eventually, as better ``aut of the box'' approaches become available this
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may all change. I believe in the long run Linux may become just as easy to
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configure as DOS / Windows or even easier, but not quite yet. (DOS in
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particular can raise hell if you try to run a bunch of incompatible programs
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on the same machine with ONE set of config.sys and autoexec.bat. I spent
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weeks on that too).
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8. The flame wars about which OS is better are mostly futile. It all depends
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what you want. ``Better'' is a subjective assessment and depends on your
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needs (and taste).
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-Josef
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From: pyeatt@cervesa.cs.colostate.edu (Larry Pyeatt)
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Subject: Re: P5-90 MHz beats SGI R4000-100MHz.
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Date: 25 Sep 1994 20:56:19 GMT
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In article <3621kv$3pf@mark.ucdavis.edu>, broadley@turing.ucdavis.edu (Bill Broadley) writes:
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|> : |> Funny in my 2 month old magazine I see a DELL P-90, 16 MB ram, 17" monitor,
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|> : |> #9 2 MB vram card (250k xstones), 1 GB disk, 3*cdrom for
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|> : |> $3899. I'm sure the ethernet card doesn't cost $500
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|>
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|> : You are free to call Dell and check my price. I did call them.
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|> : You have two choices for ethernet cards. I went with the slow one.
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|>
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|> I tried to email but it bounced.
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|>
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|> Read any Computer Shopper, byte, or pc-mag in the last two months.
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|>
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|> BTW the ethernet is $70 I believe.
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Your belief is not based in reality. Apparently you did not call Dell
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as I suggested. Did you not even read my post? I read the add in
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Computer shopper and then called Dell to get a price quote. I had them
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add an ethernet card. There were two options. On option was a slow card
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for about $100 and the other was a fast card for about $450. I do not
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have the exact numbers at the moment. The number I put down was the
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number that Dell quoted me. Maybe you should call THEM and tell them
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that their prices are wrong.
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From: pmt@cyberspace.net (philip m. thompson)
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Subject: Re: Notebooks: _Backups?_
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Date: 23 Sep 1994 18:25:44 GMT
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Brian M Berry (berry@ee.cornell.edu) wrote:
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: I'm running Slack 2.0 on a ZDS notebook, and have completely moved in.
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: With each day that passes by, I get more nervous about losing information
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: (due to my own mischief, of course :-). So far, I've been backing up
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: irreplaceable items (home directories, etc) via multi-volume floppy tarfiles.
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: Does anyone know of a method, say, a via a parallel port backup device
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: of some kind, to make larger-scale backups? Even though this would
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: likely require non-existant software/kernel features, I am interested
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: enough in this to code myself.
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I called Colorado (makers of the Trakker external tape drive and Jumbo
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floppy-controller tape drives) about this a few days ago. Their Unix/Xenix
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support people are Linux-aware. They recommended ftape, which was included
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in the (excellent) Slackware 2.0 release I installed recently, but ftape
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will _only_ work on an internal tape drive. They emphatically stated that
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I would not be able to use their (or anybody's) parallel-port tape drive
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under Linux - or any other Unixoid.
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I'll bet that somebody is working on PCMCIA support for Linux, though.
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When I can plug a Trantor PCMCIA SCSI controller into a note book to run a
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SCSI tape drive, then I'll invest in a notebook for Linux. Meanwhile, you
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might try mounting your portable computer's hard drive in a
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tape-equipped desktop machine (The rails kit is, what, five bucks?) and
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using ftape from there.
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Enjoy,
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Phil
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Date: 23 Sep 1994 20:14:00 +0200
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From: reith@maxwell.ping.de (Markus Reith)
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Subject: PCI-NCR add-on
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Reply-To: root@maxwell.ping.de
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Hello,
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Does someone use a PCI-NCR-SCSI add-on controller and can report me
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his/her experiences with it ?
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I am using an Intel-P60-PCI-board and want to add some SCSI devices
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to install Linux on. (1 GB HD + CD-ROM-drive). First I need a SCSI-
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controller because my board does not have the NCR-chip onboard.
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Markus Reith
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reith@maxwell.ping.de
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## CrossPoint v3.0 ##
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From: kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp (Kaz Sasayama)
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Subject: Re: sunsite mirror in Japan?
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 04:52:02 GMT
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>>>>> "Timothy" == Timothy Demarest <demarest@rerf.or.jp> writes:
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Timothy> Does anyone know of a mirror of sunsite in Japan? I am
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Timothy> using iij.ad.jp but they don't seem to keep their
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Timothy> mirrored files "fresh" enough!
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As far as I know, nadia.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp is mirroring SunSite.
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--
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Kaz Sasayama, a Nagoyan X68000 user.
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-- "May the source be with you!"
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From: quilty@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Lulu of the lotus-eaters)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc
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Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations?
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Date: 24 Sep 1994 03:57:49 GMT
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John Wallace (csjohn@perot.mtsu.edu) wrote:
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: What is a good price/performance VLB motherboard which is
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: both OS/2 & Linux compatible? I have 4 60ns 1x9 SIMMs
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: (30-pin) and 1 60ns 4x36 SIMMs (72 pin) to put into the
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: board, although I could do without the 4 1x9s if I had to.
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: Any help would be appreciated.
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I'm quite happy with my Opal VLB motherboard, with an IBM 486slc2-66 cpu,
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two VLB, 6 ISA, and 30-pin SIMM slots. 72-pin would be nicer, but that's
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not so bad. The IBM chip is an odd hyprid: a 16-bit data path with a
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486 internally, including a 16k on-chip cache. Everything I've read
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suggests that it'll be a bit slower that an Intel DX2-66, but faster than
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an i486-33. Also, the narrow data path limits you to 16Mg (which is
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still more than I can afford anyway). A real advantage is the extremely
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reasonable price these things sell for. I bought my motherboard w/cpu
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for about $260 a few months ago. Some places sell the same board for
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notably more, but look around and you should be able to find around this
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price. Oh yeah, btw. it's AMI bios.
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Yours, Lulu...
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-
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_/_/ The opinions expressed here must be those of my employer... _/_/
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_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Surely you don't think that *I* believe them! _/_/
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From: aleph1@dfw.net (Aleph One)
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Subject: Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD?
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 21:05:07 GMT
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Robert Ashcroft (rna@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
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: Could you perhaps be a little more clear by what you mean by AMD?
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: The subject line seems to imply a problem with AMD chips, but your
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: post seems to have nothing to do with AMD chips.
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: So far as I know, AMD chips work fine with Linux (I have one myself
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: with zero problems). What is this other AMD?
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: RNA
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: In article <1994Sep25.165813.15237@tcel.com>,
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: Sean Watkins <sean@tcel.com> wrote:
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: >
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: >Hi,
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: >
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: >After labouring several hours to get AMD working, I have come to the
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: >ultimate conclusion that AMD coupled with NIS under Linux is broken.
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: >Following example summarizes:
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: >
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: >Let the auto.home map be equal to:
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: >
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: >gopher type:=link;fs:=/home/other/gopher
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: >www type:=link;fs:=/home/other/www
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: >other host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/other host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/other
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: >ftp type:=link;fs:=/home/other/ftp
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: >staff host!=server02;type:=nfs;rhost:=server02;rfs:=/staff host==server02;type:=link;fs:=/staff
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: >cust host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/cust host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/cust
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: >
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: >
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: >NIS Querys of this map anywhere succeed --
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: >
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: >pc06 ~ % ypcat -k auto.home
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: >gopher type:=link;fs:=/home/other/gopher
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: >www type:=link;fs:=/home/other/www
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: >other host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/other host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/other
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: >ftp type:=link;fs:=/home/other/ftp
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: >staff host!=server02;type:=nfs;rhost:=server02;rfs:=/staff host==server02;type:=link;fs:=/staff
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: >cust host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/cust host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/cust
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: >pc06 ~ %
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: >
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: >
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: >Amd -v reveals:
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: >pc06 ~ % amd -v
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: >Copyright (c) 1990 Jan-Simon Pendry
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: >Copyright (c) 1990 Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
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: >Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
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: >Unofficial patch level 67.
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: >amd 5.2.2.2 of 1992/05/31 16:53:21 bsd44-beta #0: Mon Aug 29 11:39:51 MDT 1994
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: >Built by root@pc01 for an i486 running linux version 1.1.34 (little-endian).
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: >Map support for: root, passwd, union, file, error.
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: >FS: ufs, nfs, nfsx, host, link, linkx, pcfs, program, union, auto,
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: > direct, toplvl, error.
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: > Primary network: primnetname="x.x.x.x" (primnetnum=x.x.x).
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: >No Subsidiary network.
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: >pc06 ~ %
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: >(x.x.x.x have been replaced)
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: >
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: >Invocation of amd reveals:
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: >pc06 ~ % amd -a /tmp_mnt /home auto.home
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[412]/info: My ip addr is 0x100007f
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/info: file server localhost type local starts up
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: type nfs
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: version 1
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: fd 6
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: hostname 127.0.0.1
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: port 1023
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: fsname pc06:(pid413)
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: type (mntent) auto
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: opts intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: dir /home
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/user: No source data for map auto.home
|
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: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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: >Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/info: auto.home mounted fstype toplvl on /home
|
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: >pc06 ~ %
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: >
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: >Ideas??? If I ypcat -k auto.home > /etc/auto.home then do amd -a /tmp_mnt
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: >/home /etc/auto.home it is successfull...
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: >
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: >
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: >
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: >
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: >--
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: >Sean Watkins
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: >sean@tcel.com
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: SRI/Prentice Hall Internet CD: missing source
|
|
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 00:31:54 GMT
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|
In article <362kg6$ir9@crl3.crl.com>, Bradley Yearwood <bny@crl.com> wrote:
|
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>I recently purchased a copy of the book and CD-ROM "Internet CD", by
|
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>Vivian Neou at SRI International, published by Prentice Hall. On the
|
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>CD is a Slackware Linux distribution. Source code for the Linux kernel
|
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>appears to be included, but source code for most of the GNU utilities
|
|
>(which are provided in executable form) is absent. Though the book contains
|
|
>several order forms in the back for various pieces of software, I see
|
|
>nowhere in the book an acknowledgement of FSF copyright, nor any offer to
|
|
>provide source code for the GNU material. Some COPYING files are embedded
|
|
>within gzip'd tar files, but I see nothing that makes an obvious and specific
|
|
>offer to provide source code.
|
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>
|
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>Forgive me if this has already been brought up.
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>
|
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>Brad Yearwood bny@crl.com
|
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>Rohnert Park, CA
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|
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Sounds like the thing to do is send an email to Stahlman, and let him
|
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deal with it....
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|
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Gee, wouldn't be ncie if FSF got a sudden influx of capital from
|
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Prentice/Hall .... ;)
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